Gain immediate online access to competitive benchmarking data that is updated twice a year. Key Business Ratios on the Web lets your patrons examine industry benchmarks compiled from D&B’s database of public and private companies, featuring 14 key business ratios (users choose a one-year or three-year set of ratios) for public and private companies in 800 lines of business. Also available in print.
Key business ratios include:
- Solvency ratios - examining financial soundness; how well a company can meet short- and long-term obligations
- Efficiency ratios - the quality of receivables and efficiency of assets control; effectiveness of payment to supplier; evaluation of overtrading or undertrading on equity
- Profitability ratios - how profit is earned relative to sales, total assets and net worth
Competitive analysis of this caliber enables researchers to:
- Input financial data and instantly compare any balance sheet with industry benchmarks
- Profile a company’s best customers
- Pinpoint a company’s strongest suppliers
- Identify acquisition targets
- Build the insight required to improve business performance, solvency, efficiency, and profitability
- Export to a spreadsheet
- Customize analysis by entering your own information
- Look up information by 2 and 4-digit SIC codes and asset size
